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Lying to the bad guys to save the good guys sounds great. Too bad everybody thinks that they are the good guys.

They most certainly do not.

What an enlightening comment.

Have you ever met anyone who genuinely believed himself to be doing bad things? I don't mean in some cynical sense but literally. Even when we portray overly simplified villains in comic books there's still consistently some justification behind their actions.

Yes. There are arguments to be made here about belief, judgement and justification, but overwhelming evidence points to people who knowingly do things that even they themselves consider "bad" as being simply indifferent.

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